1 year passed by like a flash.
Ashton turned 20 and had been the Morning Sun Federation's President for an entire year now. He had gotten so used to being in the position that it felt natural for him already.
Under his leadership, Last Bastion experienced numerous changes. Each change stacked up and changed the entire metropolis from the bottom up.
Before, the security of Last Bastion as a whole was minuscule at best. That 'protective bubble' which is said to contain the will of fallen Heroes was proven unreliable time and time again, and nobody believed in it anymore.
Well, they're not wrong for thinking of it that way. It is indeed a false protection.
That being said, that no longer matters for Ashton produced something to replace it.
When he became the President of the Morning Sun Federation, it became registered as his beneficiary. Through this, he could make some enhancements to it and even upgrade it to the next level.